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Chapter 1: Amnesty Program
Chapter 2: Annual Vault Charge [Repealed]
Chapter 3: Banking Corporations
Chapter 4: Cigarette Tax
Chapter 5: Coin-Operated Amusement Devices Tax [Repealed]
Chapter 6: Commercial Motor Vehicles
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Chapter 22: Real Estate Tax Abatement on Rent-Controlled Property Occupied by Eligible Senior Citizens
Chapter 23: Real Property Transfer Tax
Chapter 24: Refunds of Real Property Taxes
Chapter 25: Retail Licensees of the State Liquor Authority
Chapter 26: Creation and Retention of Books and Records
§ 26-01 Purpose.
§ 26-02 Definitions.
§ 26-03 General.
§ 26-04 Recordkeeping Requirements - Machine-Sensible Records.
§ 26-05 Taxpayer Responsibility and Discretionary Authority.
§ 26-06 Alternative Storage Media for Hard Copy Documents.
§ 26-07 Records Retention - Time Period.
Chapter 27: Practice and Procedure
Chapter 28: Unincorporated Business Tax
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Chapter 30: Relocation and Employment Assistance Program
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Chapter 36: Rules Relating to the Industrial and Commercial Abatement Program
Chapter 37: Change of Tentative Assessments Pursuant to Section 1512 of the Charter
Chapter 38: Conciliation Bureau
Chapter 39: Parking Violations
Chapter 40: Rules Relating to the Sale of Tax Liens
Chapter 42: Office of the City Sheriff
Chapter 43: Rules Relating to the Office of the City Register
Chapter 44: Payment of Real Property Taxes by Electronic Funds Transfer
Chapter 45: Rules Relating to Qualifications as a Responsible Bidder
Chapter 46: The Real Property Tax Surcharge on Certain Class One Properties
Chapter 47: Horse Race Admissions Tax
Chapter 48: Rules Relating to the Biotechnology Credit Against Unincorporated Business Tax and General Corporation Tax
Chapter 49: Rules Relating to Challenges to the Validity of Real Property Taxes
Chapter 50: Rules Relating to the Partial Tax Abatement for Residential Real Property Held in the Cooperative or Condominium Form of Ownership
Chapter 51: Rules Relating to the Rebate for Owners of Certain Real Property Seriously Damaged by Hurricane Sandy
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Chapter 26: Creation and Retention of Books and Records
§ 26-01 Purpose.
The purpose of these rules is to define the requirements imposed on taxpayers for the maintenance and retention of books, records, and other sources of information under §§ 11-518, 11-687, 11-707, 11-805, 11-902, 11-1103, 11-1307 and 11-2503 of the Administrative Code of the City of New York and to address these requirements where all or a part of the taxpayer's records are received, created, maintained or generated through various computer, electronic and imaging processes and systems.

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